Chinatowns in a Transnational World (eBook, ePUB)

Myths and Realities of an Urban Phenomenon
Redaktion: Künnemann, Vanessa; Mayer, Ruth

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Interrelating different locations and time frames, this volume discloses both the numerous analogies and fascinating differences which characterize the myths and realities of Chinatowns in Europe and the United States.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136709241
• Artikelnr.: 38274507

Autorenporträt

Vanessa Künnemann is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Hannover. Ruth Mayer is Chair of American Studies at the University of Hannover.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A "Bit of Orient Set Down in the Heart of a Western
Metropolis": The Chinatown in the United States and Europe Ruth Mayer 1.
New York After Chinatown: Canal Street and the "New World Order" John Kuo
Wei Tchen 2. "Chinese Quarters": Maritime Labor, Chinese Migration, and
Local Imagination in Rotterdam and Hamburg, 1900-1950 Lars Amenda 3.
Cosmopolitan Lifestyles and "Yellow Quarters": Traces of Chinese Life in
Germany, 1921-1941 Dagmar Yu-Dembski 4. Rehabilitating Chinatown at
Mid-Century: Chinese Americans, Race, and US Cultural Diplomacy Mary Lui
5. "Curious Kisses": The Chinatown Fantasies of Thomas Burke Anne Witchard
6. "The Greatest Novelty of the Age": Fu-Manchu, Chinatown, and the Global
City Ruth Mayer 7. The Donaldina Cameron Myth and the Rescue of America,
1910-2002 Kirsten Twelbeck 8. "Showing What It Is to Be Chinese":
China/Town Authenticity and Hybridity in Pearl S. Buck's Kinfolk Vanessa
Künnemann 9. "Food Town": Chinatown and the American Journey of Chinese
Food Yong Chen 10. London's Chinatown and the Changing Shape of Chinese
Diaspora Rosemary Sales with Panos Hatziprokopiou, Alessio D'Angelo and
Xia Lin 11. Chinatowns in Transition: Between Ethnic Enclave and Global
Emblem Flemming Christiansen